I love this. My grandma was the living embodiment of "because I'm still here". She grew up dirt poor (literally had dirt floors and rats in their house), had untold medical problems causing her to have like 12 surgeries and multiple bouts with cancer treatments in her adult life but she was too stubborn to just give in. You only get one life and she was going to make the best of it by spending as much time with her family as she possibly could on this planet. It was the best example for me. Things will go wrong, there will be bad days, bad times, bad decisions, bad circumstances. Go ahead and take an hour to have your pity party but then learn how to pick yourself up and continue moving forward and find ways to smile and make the best of things.
I always said, backpacking is a great metaphor for this. Because once you're out on the trail even if the weather goes to shit or you just don't feel like it what are your options...keep going or give up where you are and what...die? No, keep going even if it's a centimeter at a time, it doesn't need to be elaborate beautiful or life changing it just needs to be a choice to keep going.
Nice one man, as a gym goer l really enjoyed that. I have often felt that the decline in gym etiquette is a good microcosm for general civilisational decline.
I find gym life to be too bugman/mouse utopia/gay. Get outside and exercise in the sun and fresh air. Swing a hammer, work on projects, commune in nature. Sunlight is good for you; it lowers your blood pressure. Men have too many internal scars and not enough external scars. Your hands should become rough and strong; this is done through manual labor. If you don't have a homestead to work on, volunteer or apprentice for a local farm.
"You have the modern equivalent of the Library of Alexandria at your fingertips".
Yes. Those who have culture have no courage, those with physical courage have no culture.
"If you concentrate on pain and defeat, you will breed resentment and pity....Fire - energy - glory - thinking; thinking is the important thing...too read about your own culture is a revolutionary act." -JB
COVID made me realize the best thing in life is indeed people. It’s not something I’ve had before. My family isn’t so tight knit and I lack friendships and relationships with woman.
I’m one of those sexless under thirty. It’s something I’m thinking about a lot this past year or two or so and I am working on doing something about that, with more an emphasis on marriage than hookups.
Thank you for this. This is weekly reading material.
I love this. My grandma was the living embodiment of "because I'm still here". She grew up dirt poor (literally had dirt floors and rats in their house), had untold medical problems causing her to have like 12 surgeries and multiple bouts with cancer treatments in her adult life but she was too stubborn to just give in. You only get one life and she was going to make the best of it by spending as much time with her family as she possibly could on this planet. It was the best example for me. Things will go wrong, there will be bad days, bad times, bad decisions, bad circumstances. Go ahead and take an hour to have your pity party but then learn how to pick yourself up and continue moving forward and find ways to smile and make the best of things.
I always said, backpacking is a great metaphor for this. Because once you're out on the trail even if the weather goes to shit or you just don't feel like it what are your options...keep going or give up where you are and what...die? No, keep going even if it's a centimeter at a time, it doesn't need to be elaborate beautiful or life changing it just needs to be a choice to keep going.
Oh how true. We all need to pause and realize just how good we really have it. The amenities and resources we have. Take advantage of it!
In the words of Nick Yemana, "very well said"
Nice one man, as a gym goer l really enjoyed that. I have often felt that the decline in gym etiquette is a good microcosm for general civilisational decline.
I find gym life to be too bugman/mouse utopia/gay. Get outside and exercise in the sun and fresh air. Swing a hammer, work on projects, commune in nature. Sunlight is good for you; it lowers your blood pressure. Men have too many internal scars and not enough external scars. Your hands should become rough and strong; this is done through manual labor. If you don't have a homestead to work on, volunteer or apprentice for a local farm.
"You have the modern equivalent of the Library of Alexandria at your fingertips".
Yes. Those who have culture have no courage, those with physical courage have no culture.
"If you concentrate on pain and defeat, you will breed resentment and pity....Fire - energy - glory - thinking; thinking is the important thing...too read about your own culture is a revolutionary act." -JB
COVID made me realize the best thing in life is indeed people. It’s not something I’ve had before. My family isn’t so tight knit and I lack friendships and relationships with woman.
I’m one of those sexless under thirty. It’s something I’m thinking about a lot this past year or two or so and I am working on doing something about that, with more an emphasis on marriage than hookups.
Thank you for this. This is weekly reading material.